Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Writer Josh Schwartz is the creator of The OC, Chuck, Gossip Girl, and more. Fake Empire, his production company with partner Stephanie Savage, is behind Hulu's Runaways, CW's Dynasty and Hart of Dixie, and many other TV shows and films. Josh and Stephanie discuss their successes and failures, how writing is like producing and how it isn't, bringing Runaways to the screen, and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | You might want to step back from your speaker or remove your headphones. |
| 0:04.1 | Yes! I can't. I just can't believe it. |
| 0:08.2 | Marks found out his 11.4 million pounds on Lotto. |
| 0:12.2 | This is just... I don't... |
| 0:14.5 | You know what? I've got tears in my eyes. |
| 0:19.9 | Yep, that's 11.4 million. |
| 0:22.7 | Lotto, will you be the next Christmas millionaire? |
| 0:26.2 | The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply. |
| 0:28.5 | Players must be 18 or over. |
| 0:34.1 | Now entering nerdist.com. |
| 0:38.7 | Welcome to the Writers Panel. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | I created the show because I wanted to talk to other writers about the business and process of writing. |
| 0:54.2 | I've had more than 500 writers on the show, so please check the archives to find more writers and more TV shows of interest to you. I'm a writer myself, having written for supernatural, Puss and Boots, and other |
| 0:59.6 | programs. I have a couple of cool projects out this first quarter of 2017 that I hope you'll |
| 1:05.3 | check out. One is the Supernatural Western comic book series from Boom Publishing that I wrote |
| 1:10.5 | with my writing partner, |
| 1:11.4 | Ben Acker, and our friend, the TV showrunner Andrew Miller. It's beautifully illustrated by |
| 1:16.1 | Hannah Christensen, and the first issue is available in comic stores and online February 8th. |
| 1:22.1 | In March comes the first book in a series of young adult novels that Acker and I wrote |
| 1:26.2 | called Star Wars Join the Resistance. |
| 1:28.9 | It takes place just before the Force Awakens and is about a bunch of kids who join the fight against |
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